Today, Pope Francis reached out to divorced Catholics in a long- awaited document on family matters.JAMES BROWN, SETH DOANE
One of the major debates at the synod is whether divorced and civilly remarried Catholics can receive Communion. Francis launched the synod process two years ago by sending out a 39-point questionnaire to bishops, parishes and ordinary Catholic families around the world asking about their understan...
Pope signals support for same-sex unions in departure from Catholic Church stance on gay rightsPope Francis has suggested there could be ways to blesssame-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting ...
To claim that this text is an attack or criticism on Pope Francis is symptomatic of the politicising happening in the Catholic Church. Everything, it seems, has to be seen as either right- or left-wing, with the pope emeritus being taken as a spokesman for the right and Pope Francis as...
The battle lines were drawn in 2016 when Francis issued his opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. Later that year four cardinals formally asked him to explain if he was changing church teaching on marriage in a rare public rebuke. Vigano's manifesto marked the first direc...
This year, in his opening speech, Francis tackled the divorced Catholics issue head on, decrying the decline of marriage, particularly in the developed world.“People are less and less serious about building a solid and fruitful relationship of love … in sickness and in health, for better an...
exhortation that concludes the two Synods on the familymay result in discussion focusing on an important topic. This topic is often overshadowed, though it is disturbing: how much has the Protestant Reformation had, and how much does it still have, an impact on the way Catholics perceive ...
The only native English-language speaker chosen by Francis is Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, New Zealand. Summing up his own intervention at last year’s Vatican conference on controversial family issues, including gay marriage and divorced Catholics, Dew has said the church must chang...
Despite such overtures, however, many gay Catholics are still waiting for progress after a two-year consultation of the church on family issues failed to chart concrete, new pastoral avenues for them.
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